Today our throwback is from the 2008 Van Buren High School yearbook! This photo features a student council member helping to make a craft with an elementary student! #BeABlackKnight #TBT
If any seniors or recent graduates are still navigating their next steps, it might be worthwhile to check out AmeriCorps. You can join them TODAY, Thursday, Jan. 27, at 4 p.m. ET, for the AmeriCorps NCCC: A to Z webinar. They will be providing a detailed overview of AmeriCorps NCCC's opportunities, benefits, requirements, and more.
https://americorps.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_stnbV9rVQ3mf6YZIUBsFLg
At VB we do our absolute best to teach our students the importance of giving back to the community. McKenna Morey and Alaina Bahnn are excellent examples of this. Together they have started a campaign to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Their team name is Knights Against Cancer and they have 7 weeks (until March 7th) to raise as much money as possible. We encourage our community to donate to this charity to show your support! Link: https://t.co/2h3VAMgBJV #BeABlackKnight #SOY4LLS #KNIGHTSAGAINSTCANCER
Van Buren Local Schools will be on a two hour delay Wednesday, January 26, 2022 due to wind chills.
Van Buren Local Schools will be closed Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Good Evening. Van Buren Local Schools will be on a two hour delay tomorrow Tuesday, January 25, 2022. This delay is weather related. Be safe and stay warm.
Happy Monday! Episode 33 of The Interviewing People Careercast features a conversation with Holly Kendrick, a 2009 Van Buren High School graduate who is now a civil engineer and project manager for the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. In the interview, Holly discusses how she chose an engineering path to pursue, how she used her internships to learn both what she did and didn't want in a future full-time position, why her work is fulfilling, and much more. Anyone interested in a career as an engineer will find information relevant to getting started down that path in this episode. To watch this episode and others, please visit bit.ly/InterviewingPeople. Enjoy the show!
Van Buren Local Schools will be closed today Monday, January 24, 2022 due to weather conditions. Be safe if you have to travel today.
Good evening everyone! Our numbers are still allowing us to have in person learning this school week. However, we will be on a two hour delay Monday, January 24th. I will let all of you know the status of the two hour delay by 8:15 tomorrow am. Thank you and have a great rest of your evening.
In honor of the Van Buren Girl’s Basketball win against Hopewell-Loudon, let’s take a look back at the 1996 VB Girl’s Basketball team!
Congrats to Evie, Karter, Ella, & Mrs. Forsyth's 5th grade class for their Positive Behavior Referrals!
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Congrats to Mason & Liam for their positive behavior referrals!
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Good Evening. Sorry for the late notification. If you ride bus #12, it will be an hour and 20 minutes late in the am and an hour late in the pm. This is due to not having a sub for this route. Our subs are all driving routes tomorrow and this route just came in as needing a sub. I hope this gives you enough time to find alternative ways to get to school. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Over the weekend, our boys basketball team met at Maple Grove Cemetery to help with the Wreaths Across America pick-up. Wreaths were laid on the graves of all veterans before Christmas. In January, they have to be picked up. We would like to thank Sherri Garner of Garner Trucking for serving as the local organizer and including us in this event. #BeABlackKnight
Good Afternoon! Weekly updates for all of you. Our numbers around student and staff absences for the second week back were up and down. The middle of the week was very average and Friday spiked a little bit for student absences. We are holding strong with staff absences and ability to cover. We will continue with mask optional and in person learning to start the week. Our goal is to keep students in school. Masking could still be an option moving forward if it keeps students in school. As you might have seen, the board of education will be holding a community forum Thursday, January 20 at 7 pm in the auditorium. The topic will be Masks and other strategies to help combat Covid-19. All are welcome and input at the forum is encouraged. On the school website there is a proposed calendar for 2022-23. This calendar is on the main page. This is proposed, not voted on by the board. I would appreciate any feedback on the proposed calendar. You can reach me at bblum@vbschools.net Have a great evening.
Happy Monday! The Interviewing People Careercast is back this week with the highlights of the interview featuring Kerri Hauman, a 2002 Van Buren graduate who is now Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY. To watch these highlights and other episodes, visit www.bit.ly/InterviewingPeople, and enjoy the show!
Teamwork makes the dreams work!
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Congrats to Maddy and Brynn for their positive behavior referrals! Also congrats to our 5th grade spelling bee champ Kathryn and runner-up Athira!
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Van Buren Local Schools received several pallets of hand/surface sanitizer at no cost to the district. We viewed this as an opportunity to not only save the district money, but to also help our community with the intent to get enough to share with district residents, businesses, churches, and families.
If you would like free hand/surface sanitizer, please stop by the maintenance/transportation office (white building in the north parking lot) between the hours of 7:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday - Friday. If you need to schedule an alternative time to pick up, please contact Jon Kelley at jkelley@vbschools.net.
At Van Buren we find it extremely important that our young students have good role models to look up to! A way we make sure this is a success is by having a weekly mentoring program for our young ones. Our high school students go over to the elementary to eat lunch, play games with their buddies, and to model our Traits of a Black Knight! #BeABlackKnight
